Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2019-08-29
Books mentioned on Fritz Haber: The Man Who Invented Chemical Warfare
In episode 81, Robert is joined by Karah Preiss and Oz Woloshyn (Sleepwalkers Podcast) to discuss Fritz Haber. Footnotes: 1.
Robert Evans discussed Master Mind by Daniel Charles.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Master Mind
Discussed“I'm going to read a quote from the book Mastermind by Daniel Charles, which is a a biography of Fritz Haber. Quote, "Young Fritz developed a knack for the composition of rhyming verse, even on the spur of the moment.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Sleepwalkers
“And actually, the reason our podcast is called Sleepwalkers is actually an illusion to World War I. Um, there's a very there's a very famous book by a historian called Christopher Clark called uh Sleepwalkers, how Europe stumbled into conflict, I think is the subtitle.”
Passing From Beirut to Jerusalem
“So, well, Tom Freriedman, the New York Times uh columnist uh who previously wrote uh a very good book in the in the '90s called From Beirut to Jerusalem, the history of the Middle East, is very interested in in climate change. And he traces the origins of the Syrian civil war back to uh famine, well, the rising climate”